well do you have any good ideas about this problem
well i i i live in Fort Lauderdale now which is of course very close to Miami
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in fact my fiance works in Miami uh downtown quite a bit so crime's a definite concern also before this i was in Boston where the crime rate's also fairly high
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so it it's definitely a concern something that needs to be worked on i know that it affects my everyday life in that uh you know my fiance is very paranoid about making sure everything's locked
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uh you know it it also concerns me because i have a convertible and uh you know there's certain areas around here where i'd be afraid to drive with my top down
yeah well i have the same thing and i understand because i live very close to Dallas
so we have quite a crime rate too but i'm not real sure what to do recently it's been kind of a topic at work and
um i just kind of feel that there's a lot of people in jail for crimes that are not really against a person
and i think maybe we need to find another way to punish those people and put the real criminals in jail where they
really can't do any harm and not let them out on parole in six months or three years or whatever and put them to work doing something useful where they don't just eat up our tax dollars
sure
and that's kind of what we've come up with but i don't know what are your feelings about that
well i mean yeah except the the problem with that of course is defining what what's a real crime then you know what what's a crime that counts
right well a dangerous thing you know where you will get hurt if they're out on the streets
i mean it i think this deal of Leona Helmsley has just kind of brought this all home
and that's what kind of sparked the discussion was that this is a seventy seventy two year old lady gonna go use up tax dollars in jail
and i just i just have a real problem with that i think there's another way to deal with that other than put this lady in jail to set an example
but putting it that way that is kind of ironic that she'd be using up tax dollars but
that's right
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you know that really is true
sure uh
however you know some of the crimes that people ought to be locked up for are uh are uh you know not even things that would be major crimes but they'd still be dangerous for example uh drunken driving
well that's true well that is a potential danger though you're right about that but
you know but
um traffic tickets things like that i mean i've known of people just to be picked up because they didn't pay their traffic tickets and
you know but
i i say yeah fine them extra do whatever but to go ahead and put them in jail it costs us money when they do that
so i don't know i just have a problem with overcrowded jails on crimes that nobody's really gonna get hurt uh financially maybe and and things like that and yes it has to be dealt with but i'm not sure that's the way
well that that that is true that the uh
amount of uh
you know it it is true that uh
you know jail as a concept at least is not working in some cases
yeah
you know uh
yeah and also i think that they can get off on too many technicalities
i think that it turns out sometimes that the victims are the ones that have to defend themselves rather than the criminals and i think that's another thing that needs to be addressed too
i i think a
i think you have much many rights as a victim
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i i i think it's very sad however uh you know i i i can see some of that in that and i still don't necessarily agree with that but i mean that the thing is that uh you know
we're talking about affecting someone's you know livelihood sometimes their life even on some of the more heinous crimes
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and uh uh
it's a
you know you according to the system we've got they're presumed innocent or get another trial
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you know so yeah they they do have to do some of that stuff although i do agree with you that it's
that's another thing that's not quite right
yeah i think so and
i don't know i i've been through a two year divorce recently and i find that the system sucks to put it bluntly and so you know i just i don't have a lot of respect anymore for what i thought you know would be fair you just figure oh well the judge will be fair well
forget it you know it's not it doesn't happen they're in a hurry their docket is full they want you in they want you out
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and that's the way it is and so
my my fiance's a lawyer so i definitely understand that
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course in Florida the judges are elected so um not only are they not fair they try to be popular at times
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you know which is not necessarily right
yeah
so i don't know but i don't know how you and i can solve this that's the problem you know we all have ideas but nothing seems to change
and i'm not sure how it can
well uh i i think you had a part of what we need to do earlier is uh
